Quotes about Statistics
Crime is common. Logic is rare.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so. - Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
- Mark Twain
440,000 lethal, preventable events each year from care in hospitals, or "roughly one-sixth of all deaths that occur in the United States each year.
- Eric Topol
Even though the risks of death are higher driving than flying, many people would rather drive simply because they feel they have more control driving. The facts are that only a few hundred people die a year flying, and 44,000 are killed a year driving.
- Robert Kiyosaki
To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
- Florence Nightingale
The effect? A remarkably disproportionate number of black babies are aborted. The abortion rate per 1000 women for whites is 18, for blacks 54, and for others 38.46
- Jesse Lee Peterson
In its best prewar year, Europe with almost 300 million people had a gross national product of 150 billion dollars. In that same year, the United States with 150 million people had a gross national product of 300 billion dollars.
- Paul Hoffman
Howard Markel estimates that the total number of Americans who died of the 1918 pandemic was between 500,000 and 750,000; the
- Lawrence Wright
Or consider another field where one can use games to implant an understanding of basic principles. All scientific thinking is in terms of probability. The old eternal verities are merely a high degree of likeliness; the immutable laws of nature are just statistical averages. How does one get these profoundly unobvious notions into children's heads? By playing roulette with them, by spinning coins and drawing lots. By teaching them all kinds of games with cards and boards and dice.
- Aldous Huxley
More doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette.
- Anonymous
Up to five goals is journalism. After that, it becomes statistics.
- Anonymous
To understand God's thoughts we must study statistics, for these are the measure of his purpose.
- Florence Nightingale